Leviticus 25
1 Then the LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
And YHWH speaks to Moses, in Mount Sinai, saying,
2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.
“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: When you come into the land which I am giving to you, then the land has kept a Sabbath to YHWH.
3 For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.
[For] six years you sow your field, and [for] six years you prune your vineyard, and have gathered its increase,
4 But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—a Sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.
and in the seventh year is a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to YHWH; you do not sow your field, and you do not prune your vineyard;
5 You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.
you do not reap the spontaneous growth of your harvest, and you do not gather the grapes of your separated thing; it is a year of rest for the land.
6 Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,
And the Sabbath [increase] of the land has been for you for food, to you, and to your manservant, and to your handmaid, and to your hired worker, and to your settler, who are sojourning with you;
7 and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.
and for your livestock, and for the beast which [is] in your land, is all its increase for [them] to eat.
8 And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years.
And you have numbered seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, and the days of the seven Sabbaths of years have been forty-nine years for you,
9 Then you are to sound the horn far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. You shall sound it throughout your land.
and you have caused a horn of shouting to pass over in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month; in the Day of Atonements you cause a horn to pass over through all your land;
10 So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.
and you have hallowed the year, the fiftieth year; and you have proclaimed liberty in the land to all its inhabitants; it is a Jubilee for you; and you have turned back each to his possession; indeed, you return each to his family.
11 The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.
It [is] a Jubilee, the fiftieth year, it is a year for you; you do not sow, nor reap its spontaneous growth, nor gather its separated things;
12 For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.
for it [is] a Jubilee—it is holy to you; you eat its increase from the field;
13 In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.
you return each to his possession in this Year of the Jubilee.
14 If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.
And when you sell anything to your fellow, or buy from the hand of your fellow, you do not oppress one another;
15 You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining.
you buy from your fellow by the number of years after the Jubilee; he sells to you by the number of the years of increase;
16 You shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.
you multiply its price according to the multitude of the years, and you diminish its price according to the fewness of the years; for [it is] a number of increases [that] he is selling to you;
17 Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
and you do not oppress one another, and you have been afraid of your God; for I [am] your God YHWH.
18 You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.
And you have done My statutes, and you keep My judgments, and have done them, and you have dwelt on the land confidently,
19 Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land.
and the land has given its fruit, and you have eaten to satiety, and have dwelt confidently on it.
20 Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’
And when you say, What do we eat in the seventh year, behold, do we not sow, nor gather our increase?
21 But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.
Then I have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it has made the increase for three years;
22 While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.
and you have sown [in] the eighth year, and have eaten of the old increase; you eat the old until the ninth year, until the coming in of its increase.
23 The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
And the land is not sold—to extinction, for the land [is] Mine, for you [are] sojourners and settlers with Me;
24 Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
and in all the land of your possession you give a redemption for the land.
25 If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.
When your brother becomes poor, and has sold his possession, then his redeemer who is near to him has come, and he has redeemed the sold thing of his brother;
26 Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,
and when a man has no redeemer, and his own hand has attained [means], and he has found [it] as sufficient [for] its redemption,
27 he shall calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his property.
then he has reckoned the years of its sale, and has given back that which is over to the man to whom he sold [it], and he has returned to his possession.
28 But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property.
And if his hand has not found sufficiency to give back to him, then his sold thing has been in the hand of him who buys it until the Year of Jubilee; and it has gone out in the Jubilee, and he has returned to his possession.
29 If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.
And when a man sells a dwelling-house [in] a walled city, then his right of redemption has been until the completion of a year from its selling; his right of redemption is [during these] days;
30 If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be released in the Jubilee.
and if it is not redeemed to him until the fullness of a perfect year, then the house which [is] in a walled city has been established to extinction to him buying it, throughout his generations; it does not go out in the Jubilee.
31 But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
And a house of the villages which have no surrounding wall is reckoned on the field of the country; there is redemption for it, and it goes out in the Jubilee.
32 As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the cities they possess.
As for cities of the Levites—houses of the cities of their possession—continuous redemption is for the Levites;
33 So whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.
as for him who redeems from the Levites, then the sale of a house (and [in] the city of his possession) has gone out in the Jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the midst of the sons of Israel.
34 But the open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent possession.
And a field, a outskirt of their cities, is not sold; for it [is] a continuous possession for them.
35 Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.
And when your brother has become poor, and his hand has failed with you, then you have kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he has lived with you;
36 Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
you take no usury or increase from him; and you have been afraid of your God; and your brother has lived with you;
37 You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.
you do not give your money to him in usury, and you do not give your food for increase.
38 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
I [am] your God YHWH, who has brought you out of the land of Egypt to give the land of Canaan to you, to become your God.
39 If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.
And when your brother becomes poor with you, and he has been sold to you, you do not lay servile service on him;
40 Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
he is as a hired worker [and] as a settler with you; he serves with you until the Year of the Jubilee—
41 Then he and his children are to be released, and he may return to his clan and to the property of his fathers.
then he has gone out from you, he and his sons with him, and has turned back to his family; and he turns back to the possession of his fathers.
42 Because the Israelites are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.
For they [are] My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold [with] the sale of a servant;
43 You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.
you do not rule over him with rigor, and you have been afraid of your God.
44 Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.
And your manservant and your handmaid whom you have [are] from the nations who [are] around you; you buy manservant and handmaid from them,
45 You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.
and also from the sons of the settlers who are sojourning with you, you buy from them, and from their families who [are] with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they have been to you for a possession;
46 You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.
and you have taken them for an inheritance for your sons after you, to inherit [for] a possession; you lay service on them for all time, but on your brothers, the sons of Israel, each with his brother—you do not rule over him with rigor.
47 If a foreigner residing among you prospers, but your countryman dwelling near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of his clan,
And when the hand of a sojourner or settler with you attains [riches], and your brother with him has become poor, and he has been sold to a sojourner, a settler with you, or to the root of the family of a sojourner,
48 he retains the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his brothers may redeem him:
after he has been sold, there is a right of redemption for him; one of his brothers redeems him,
49 either his uncle or cousin or any close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.
or his uncle or a son of his uncle redeems him, or any of the relations of his flesh, of his family, redeems him, or [if] his own hand has attained [means] then he has been redeemed.
50 He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.
And he has reckoned with his buyer from the year of his being sold to him until the Year of Jubilee, and the money of his sale has been by the number of years; it is with him as the days of a hired worker.
51 If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.
If many years still [remain], he gives back his redemption [money] according to them, from the money of his purchase.
52 If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption according to his remaining years.
And if few are left of the years until the Year of Jubilee, then he has reckoned with him [and] he gives back his redemption [money] according to his years;
53 He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.
as a hired worker, year by year, he is with him, and he does not rule him with rigor before your eyes.
54 Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the Year of Jubilee.
And if he is not redeemed in these [years], then he has gone out in the Year of Jubilee, he and his sons with him.
55 For the Israelites are My servants. They are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
For the sons of Israel [are] servants to Me; they [are] My servants whom I have brought out of the land of Egypt; I [am] your God YHWH.”
